New York State Animal Advocacy Day

The third annual New York State Animal Advocacy Day will be held next week on Tuesday, June 4th.

This event, sponsored by Assemblyman Jim Tedisco and Senator Greg Ball, brings animal advocates and animal welfare groups from around the state to Albany to advocate for stronger laws to protect companion animals.

The event will be attended by many familiar faces including the families who adopted Hudson and Pearl (“the railroad puppies”), Dr. Tom Bowersox, Bocker the Labradoodle, Saratoga County District Attorney James Murphy, and Jaime Roberts of 98.3 WTRY. Bob Barker will address those in attendance with a letter of support to be read by Hudson Valley Community College Professor Valerie Lang Waldin. Steve Caporizzo will serve as the emcee of the event.

Many different shelters and rescue groups will also have booths set up at NYS Animal Advocacy Day which you can visit before the speaking program begins at 10:30 am.

Lawmakers and animal advocates will be championing for a few different pieces of legislation this year. A.4516/S.2305 is just one specific bill that this year’s Animal Advocacy Day will focus on. This bill would require convicted animal abusers to be placed on a statewide abuse registry, prohibit them from ever owning another companion animal, as well as requiring them to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

A.3905/S.4615, which would ban the transportation of horses for slaughter in New York State, will also be a priority at Animal Advocacy Day.

New York State Animal Advocacy Day will be held at the Well of the Legislative Office Building and begins at 9:30 am. This event is free to the public.

3 Responses

Yep another waste of time. A hundred people show up and claim to represent millions of NY people.. when only representing a few thousand.. then force their will upon everyone. It’s only an animal! Let’s focus on the children!

Also, by strengthening our animal cruelty laws we will be protecting children. There have been numerous studies showing that those who abuse animals are more likely to cause harm to humans, especially to women and children. The link between animal cruelty and human violence has been discussed on this blog before, but if you’d like more information on it I would be happy to post some.

I’ll take a chance posting a comment here because it won’t be approved:

What do animals and kids have to do with each other? There are millions of animal rights/welfare advocates in this country. Animal-haters are in the minority. Most of us have children AND pets. That’s the real world.

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